Ballantine Bantam Dell has set September 10 as the release date for Stephen Hawking’s new memoir, My Brief History.The book, which is coming out under the Bantam imprint, is the first Hawking will have written entirely on his own the publisher said, thanks to “technological developments” that have allowed the cosmologist, who is confined to a wheelchair, to complete the writing process without outside help.

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